The MayPi Doorman System was developed to serve as the electronic doorman at the newly renovated Red Victorian Coliving Hotel in San Francisco's historic Haight Ashbury neighborhood.
MayPi is named after William May. William May has been The Fairmont San Francisco's Doorman for over 27 years! As he likes to say this service has helped him earn his PhD in People. He's now up for a Hotel Hero Award for Lifetime Achievement in Operations. Learn more here:
The hardware used for this system includes:
- Raspberry Pi Model B
- PiFace Digital I/O Expander
- Slightly modified to expose 2 GPIO pins
- Wiegand Key Pad
- 12v Electric door strike
- Various other parts
- Raspian Wheezy (2014-06-20)
- Nginx 1.2.1
- Django 1.6
- Gunicorn 0.14.5
- Python 2.7
Installing a django app is pretty straight forward. I should probably add some better installation instructions though.
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